Nobel Literature Laureates

Nobel literature laureates since 1945:
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1998: Jose Saramago, Portuguese
1997: Dario Fo, Italian
1996: Wislawa Szymborska, Polish.
1995: Seamus Heaney, Irish.
1994: Kenzaburo Oe, Japanese.
1993: Toni Morrison, American.
1992: Derek Walcott, St. Lucian.
1991: Nadine Gordimer, South African.
1990: Octavio Paz, Mexican.
1989: Camilo Jose Cela, Spanish.
1988: Naguib Mahfouz, Egyptian.
1987: Joseph Brodsky, Russian-born American.
1986: Wole Soyinka, Nigerian.
1985: Claude Simon, French.
1984: Jaroslav Seifert, Czech.
1983: William Golding, British.
1982: Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Colombian.
1981: Elias Canetti, Bulgarian-born Briton.
1980: Czeslaw Milosz, Polish-born American.
1979: Odysseus Elytis, Greek.
1978: Isaac Bashevis Singer, Polish-born American.
1977: Vicente Aleixandre, Spanish.
1976: Saul Bellow, Canadian-born American.
1975: Eugenio Montale, Italian.
1974: Eyvind Johnson and Harry Martinson, both Swedish.
1973: Patrick White, Australian.
1972: Heinrich Boell, German.
1971: Pablo Neruda, Chilean.
1970: Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Russian.
1969: Samuel Beckett, Irish.
1968: Yasunari Kawabata, Japanese.
1967: Miguel A. Asturias, Guatemalan.
1966: Shmuel Y. Agnon, Polish-born Israeli, and Nelly Sachs, German-born Swede.
1965: Mikhail Sholokhov, Russian.
1964: Jean-Paul Sartre, French (declined award).
1963: Giorgos Seferis, Greek.
1962: John Steinbeck, American.
1961: Ivo Andric, Yugoslav.
1960: Saint-John Perse, French.
1959: Salvatore Quasimodo, Italian.
1958: Boris Pasternak, Russia (forced to decline).
1957: Albert Camus, French.
1956: Juan Ramon Jimenez, Spanish.
1955: Halldor Laxness, Icelandic.
1954: Ernest Hemingway, American.
1953: Winston Churchill, British.
1952: Francois Mauriac, French.
1951: Par Lagerkvist, Swedish.
1950: Bertrand Russell, British.
1949: William Faulkner, American (awarded in 1950).
1948: T.S. Eliot, U.S.-born British.
1947: Andre Gide, French.
1946: Hermann Hesse, Swiss.
1945: Gabriela Mistral, Chilean.